Tiny Music Critic’s Artists of the Decade Advent CalendarPlease note: the numbers on the artist graphics refer to the calendar days in December, NOT to their ranking. There is a loose order…Dec 31, 2019Dec 31, 2019
Review: On Sulphur English extreme metal act Inter Arma deliver their most uncompromising…Inter Arma’s fourth album is a gauntlet thrown down to metal writers everywhere, challenging them to come up with new ways to adequately…Dec 21, 2019Dec 21, 2019
Review: Members of Conjurer and Pijn come together for a celebration of the transcendently joyful…Two emergent leading lights of the UK metal scene, both signed to the nigh-on-infallible Holy Roar Records imprint, have combined forces…Dec 18, 2019Dec 18, 2019
Review: On their fifth full-length, Gold & Grey, Baroness explore the darkness that pervades a…On the Georgia metal band’s latest album, and last in their chromatically-themed series of records, frontman and lyricist, John Baizley…Dec 18, 2019Dec 18, 2019
Review: A newly woke Kevin Barnes gets simulated reality paranoid and falls in love on of…of Montreal’s 15th (!) studio album sees Kevin Barnes revisit the approach of his 2004–2008 creative peak by writing, performing and…Dec 16, 2019Dec 16, 2019
Review: Screaming Females outdo themselves with the crunching pop-punk and classic rock dramatics…Screaming female, Marissa Paternoster, and her bandmates, the decidedly non-screaming, non-female, Jarrett Dougherty (drums), and King…Dec 16, 2019Dec 16, 2019
Review: Ezra Furman blows up his sound on the fantastical, allegorical, “queer outlaw saga” of…On his seventh album, and most ambitious yet, Ezra Furman concocts a movie-adaptation-worthy narrative of humans-turned-angels on the run…Dec 16, 2019Dec 16, 2019
Review: The Go! Team return with Semicircle, an album that’s less endearing than it thinks it isOn Semicircle, The Go! Team head honcho, Ian Parton, realises his dream of making an album based on the idea of a rogue school marching…Dec 13, 2019Dec 13, 2019